Programming is terrible—Lessons learned from a life wasted. EMF2012

Why HN readers recommended it

HN lists it among its favorite programming talks and fantastic technical speeches.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

tef ebooks

Topic

software engineering lessons

Format

talk

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

6

Recommendation years in dataset

2015–2022

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• That and Hammock Driven Development: [LINK] Both of these talks are in my top 5. Edit (okay, here are the other 3): * All the Little Things by Sandi Metz [LINK] * Programming is terrible—Lessons learned from a life wasted. [VIDEO] * Some talk I …

• 1) Do not attempt to live code. change your code via version control, build small videos, copy and paste... whatever you do... do not try and live code 2) Read "The presentation secrets of Steve Jobs" ... its not really about Steve Jobs so much …

• Rich Hickey - Hammock-driven development: [LINK] Brett Victor - Inventing on principle: [LINK] Programming is terrible: [VIDEO] Dave Beazely - Python concurrency from the ground up (applicable to languages in general, with generator and corourine functionality) [LINK] Functional programming, with birds: [LINK] Short and classic: …